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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "The Webster Foundation" <@raspak.com@assytool.com>
Reply-To: thewebstersf@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:23:57 -0500
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU ?


Dear Sir / Madam,
This is a personal email directed to you. My wife and I won a PowerBall of
$316,300.000.00 jackpot on January 05, 2022 and we have voluntarily
decided to donate the sum of FIVE MILLION Dollar to you as part of our own
charity project to improve the life of 15-20 lucky individuals all over
the world plus 15 close friends and family.

We believe that this wonderful opportunity came to us from God and we
cannot keep it to ourselves alone, Your contact was submitted to us by
Google Management Team and you received this email because we have short
listed you as one of the lucky recipients, If you have received this email
then you are one of the lucky winner and all you have to do is get back to
us this email (thewebstersfoundation@gmail.com) with your particulars so
that we can send your details to the pay-out bank.

You can verify this by visiting the web pages below to see our interview
and send your response back to us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhs_DevUOkc
https://www.powerball.com/winner-story/3163-million-wisconsin-powerball-jackpot-claimed-brown-co-couple

And one more thing, this donation is made out to you as to enable you
strengthen your personal issues and mostly to generously help us extend
hands of giving to the less privilege, orphans and charity organizations
within your locality.

We await your urgent response Via email thewebstersfoundation@gmail.com

Good-luck,
Tammy and Cliff Webster

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